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Pop culture musings from a pop culture productSun, 04 Feb 2018 04:17:13 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Morality in Red Dead Redemption by Chris Burdickhttps://themodernthings.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/morality-in-red-dead-redemption/#comment-585
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 04:17:13 +0000http://themodernthings.wordpress.com/?p=1650#comment-585Plus, Dutch said “When I’m gone, they’ll just find another monster. They have to, because they have to justify their wages.”, which further indicates the morality of Red Dead Redemption.
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Sun, 04 Feb 2018 04:12:14 +0000http://themodernthings.wordpress.com/?p=1650#comment-584“The Government is corrupt.” is the moral of Red Dead Redemption, because they sent John Marston; a former outlaw turned family man, to kill the men he used to ride with in exchange for his freedom and leave him alone, but then they come to Beecher’s Hope a few days later and kill him. Then, when Jack Marston is older, he finds and kills Edgar Ross.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 17:55:27 +0000http://themodernthings.wordpress.com/?p=1079#comment-411Its like you read my mind! You seem to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you can do with a few pics to drive the message home a bit, but instead of that, this is fantastic blog. A fantastic read. I will definitely be back. deeadacdadfe
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Mon, 06 Jan 2014 07:52:23 +0000http://themodernthings.wordpress.com/?p=1431#comment-387I like the Black eyed peas 🙂 but I like just about all music… except JB
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Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:37:52 +0000http://themodernthings.wordpress.com/?p=1511#comment-385Well, I don’t think EVERYONE interested in intelligent game discussion is exclusively interested in the “games as art” issue, at least not anymore. Granted – I am commenting almost 2 years after the fact, so things may have diversified since then.

The real problem is that everyone thinks their issue is the one “intelligent” issue in gaming. The art games crowd tend to think “games as art” is the only intelligent topic in games, the “gaming sexism” crowd thinks that the only way to bring intelligence to gaming is through sex, race, and other social issues. Then you’ve got the “retro” crowd that thinks the only way to intelligently talk about games is to go back to old consoles or resurrect old game mechanics…so on and so forth.

I am generalizing here obviously, but basically as different sites, blogs, and other corners of the community get stuck on one issue, a true “intelligent” perspective taking all things into account gets lost – intelligence becomes an excuse to exclude other perspectives rather than add more perspectives to our gaming “worldview”.

And part of this probably has to do with the fact that there isn’t enough consensus about the true nature of games. In the effort to prove games can be “serious business”, so many advocate making games into “interactive cinema” or “interactive literature”, or a medium for social messages…which actually contradicts the idea that a pure game, for gaming’s sake, can be art or have intellectual value on its own.

Personally I’d argue there isn’t nearly enough intelligent discussion of game mechanics, in and of themselves. So many people can blame developers like Activision or Nintendo for being greedy, pumping out sequels, and clinging too closely to their formulas, but they can’t actually articulate what’s wrong with their formulas which needs fixing, how anything would be fixed, or propose new innovative mechanical elements to be added.

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Sun, 22 Sep 2013 01:43:56 +0000http://themodernthings.wordpress.com/?p=1684#comment-384coach バッグ
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Sun, 12 May 2013 06:29:04 +0000http://themodernthings.wordpress.com/?p=1684#comment-373Good article. You can catch a glimpse of what they’re going for in the Assassin’s Creed series, and I’m positive it will be better, but I’m not sure it’s going to be as free as what you describe with Battlefield.

It’s probably still going to be very much like GTA, just not as restricted due to the nature of the game.

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Thu, 09 May 2013 12:24:28 +0000http://themodernthings.wordpress.com/?p=1241#comment-372excellent put up, very informative. I’m wondering why the opposite experts of this sector don’t notice this.
You must proceed your writing. I am confident, you’ve a huge readers’ base already!
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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:34:30 +0000http://themodernthings.wordpress.com/?p=1511#comment-355Really enjoyed reading this. I agree completely. I’d love to do the kind of video-game writing that you are suggesting here, though I don’t know if I game enough to regularly contribute.
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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:59:28 +0000http://themodernthings.wordpress.com/?p=1431#comment-351when it comes to groups like The Brown eye Corns, just be cautious and watch out for signs and symptoms of “music induced, IQ degeneration” such as drooling, wanting to fuck the couch, delusions where the entire surface area of the earth is actually a massive dance floor, where our only mission is to dance and fuck until our planet crashes into the sun…… In the words of the late great George Carlin, ” It’s all bullshit, and it’s bad for ya”
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